Good point, Jay. Who but a hack would be concerned when dozens of GOP polls observers are forced out of a dozen polling places, and a judge has to give an order to get them back in, and who knows what will happen in the meantime?

I should remember, though, that voter fraud has been scientifically proven to be a nonexistent problem. So there must be some other explanation for this.

Inga, Benghazi and Fast and Furious as well as a variety of Obama crony redistribution schemes all should be scandals. However, the press refuses to report them. The press will report that some Republicans asked for ID, not anything Democrats do.

"It happens all the time," Voigt said. He said court-appointed Republican officials typically show up on Election Day and end up squaring off against stand-in officials at the polling sites filling in the open seats.

WTF. What a bunch of wimps. Don't allow yourself to be kicked out or at least go down fighting. The Dems have the Black Panther vigilantes....get some of our own and kick ass. Stop playing by our nicey nice rules and play by theirs. Punch back twice as hard.

They have to do something to counterbalance western Pennsylvania. If the coal country bitter clingers voted Democrat in the past (a working class tendency), I can't imagine they will now considering how much of Obama's snark and insult over the past four years has been aimed directly at people like them, their beliefs, and way of life. Add that to the heavily Catholic suburbs who may just happen to be insulted by Obama's war on the Catholic church and the Sandra Fluckification of the Democrats, Pennsylvania may be ripe for a Romney landslide.

Fraud in the cities is a given, it was also so when the big city machines were Republican rather than Democrat. It seems inherent to the city environment, like organized crime. The best we can hope for is to keep it to a minimum. Which is hard to do with the Democrats acting like the Mafia on a mission from God.

I'm with DBQ. These GOP observers have a vitally important job to do. Unless someone's holding a gun there's no reason to leave. Have a seat and start streaming video of the local thugs making mean faces.

OK, let's monitor PA while completely ignoring how GOP governors are stacking the deck in OH and FL. And I'm sure you don't see that at all. Honestly Ann, this political season has brought out the unbelievably blind political hack in you.

Ronald Ward said...OK, let's monitor PA while completely ignoring how GOP governors are stacking the deck in OH and FL. And I'm sure you don't see that at all. Honestly Ann, this political season has brought out the unbelievably blind political hack in you.

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I see this as a 'routine' schenanegan that is done every election as opposed to something new and unprecedented. As a result (as evinced by the rapid court order) the Republicans in that area already know how to combat this, and probably already had their motions drafted and ready to file. I'd wager the lawyers were already at the courthouse and just needed the phone calls, and specific precinct numbers to file.

Sure, it is despicable, but by no means out of the ordinary, and frankly is to be expected (why anyone is surprised by this I don't know).

As to seat filler definition, I would imagine it is used to describe people who fill poll watcher spots that the other party doesn't bother to fill themselves. I.E. 6 poll watcher spots, but no Reps volunteer, so the Dems get to fill all the seats. The conflict happens when the Reps actually show up.

Article says this is routine. Mainly a scuffle between seat filler poll watchers, and appointed poll watchers.

Apparently happens every election, scandolous behavior to be sure, but a true scandal. Hardly.

Here is how I understand it. Republicans have traditionally had little presence in this part of Philadelphia. So, they often haven't sent poll watchers in the past. The Democratic election head there then appoints one of his cronies to sit in the Republican's seat. And, this presumably allows for a lot of hanky panky, limited only by the number of registered voters in the precinct (which is where all those fake registrations that Dem organizations have supplied come in).

This year, a lot of Republicans apparently showed up to fill the Republican election watcher slot. This was not appreciated by the local Dem organization that is used to filling those slots, and so balked by ejecting the designated Republican poll watchers.

A couple things of note here. First, a lot of those on the left claim that the real issue is disenfranchisement (i.e. undervoting), and not voter fraud (i.e. overvoting). This is just more evidence that voter fraud is probably rampant and traditionally unpoliced in at least the heavily Dem areas of Philadelphia.

Secondly, on a good note, the fact that the Republicans are sending election judges and poll watchers to these precincts is likely indicia that they are much better organized this year, and the fact that they were able to get injunctions and the like evidence that they were prepared for this, with attorneys standing by ready to go into court. And, I think that means that there is likely going to be less fraudulent voting by the Dem machine in Philadelphia than usual.

Flipping things around a bit - there was a comment that the number of Republican poll watchers being denied access was historically high, even for that portion of Philadelphia. This may be evidence that the Dems planned this in advance, as the Reps seemingly did their response.

We shall see as it unfolds. My hope is that this is fully investigated after the elections (good luck there), and the Dem politicians who participated in the illegal campaign tactics rolled in order to get at those who presumably organized the apparent concerted acts.

The other answer is simply that the 'burbs - Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, and Bucks Counties, as well as some well-to-do areas in the Great Northeast and southwestern areas of Philadelphia County (Overbrook, Bala, etc.) are going to go for the Romster.

The real attempt at "stealing" Pennsylvania is by the GOP with their voter ID law and the disregarding of court orders to allow people to vote as before. If Penn. is stolen, it will be the GOP that has engineered the theft.

Brendan (11/6/12 3:31 PM)perhaps you don't realize it, or more probably you don't want to.Ok, I'll try to explain: your voting system is a risible joke, a scandal - in central Africa they are more reliable than you.

Basically, the UN is sending in people to make sure our elections are legit. That's funny enough right there. But they are amazed that we are, in most cases, NOT requiring ID's to vote. Apparently, they are cognizant of the ability of people to cheat at elections when they don't have ID's or don't require ID's. who'd have thunk it?

There are also already instances of people going to polling booths and being told that they already voted. In other words, someone used their ID and cast a vote. So how do the people at the polling place tell which person is casting the legitimate vote, and which person is committing a fraud?

If there were just some kind of identification that existed, and it showed the persons face!